[ximm]

I am not sure it is helpful to shoehorn terminals into being a second web. The terminal's strength is its simplicity.

For example, I really dislike mouse support in TUIs. 100% of the times I used the mouse on a TUI, I wanted to copy a piece of text. If the TUI hijacks the mouse and does something different with it (e.g. vim switching into visual mode) that is just annoying.

Of course a11y is important. But it barely works on the web and we won't get perfect semantics on the terminal without a lot of work. I say the better option is to strip down the experience to the parts that work well.

[opan]

I agree that accidental mouse actions in a TTY are horrible, but generally speaking if you hold shift when clicking and dragging, it will work at the terminal emulater layer instead of sending the clicks to the program in the terminal. I have been shift-clicking like this for years. More because I'm generally in tmux than anything else. If I click and drag without shift I think tmux intercepts it usually.

[arcanemachiner]

> If the TUI hijacks the mouse and does something different with it (e.g. vim switching into visual mode) that is just annoying.

tmux is great for this. Just press Ctrl+[ and the cursor can select whatever text is in the window.